BuddyPress 1.9 Beta 1 is now available!

Whether you are a BuddyPress developer, or a tinkerer with a development/testing environment, or simply an intrepid soul, we’d love for you to put this latest and greatest version of BuddyPress through its paces before its general release in a few weeks. Major changes and features that could use attention:

The new Notifications component, which adds a Notifications menu to user profiles

A reminder that BP 1.9-beta1 is beta software. We don’t recommend that you run it on a production server. Get your copy today via Subversion, or via zip: buddypress.1.9-beta1.zip. Thanks for helping us move toward 1.9!

And just to add to the new widgets list; now also available is a ‘Sitewide Notices’ widget. This widget, when activated, will automagically disable the default sitewide notices overlay in preference of the widget display.

This item was moved to the 2.0 release/milestone because we realised we wouldn’t have enough time to finish building and testing the feature for the release. Can’t guarantee it’ll be in 2.0, but it’s likely since we’ve done a bunch of work on it already.